From: Puppetz-AT-aol.com Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:59:14 EDT Subject: Re: Re: PUPT: Re: Performance/ training For those budding puppeteers out there who are becoming discouraged because they feel they are lousy actors: a couple of the best puppeteers I know are not-so-hot "text-based" actors. Put them on a stage without a puppet--yawn; put them on a stage WITH a puppet--magic! If you think of the voice, the human body, and the puppet as individual instruments used to express emotion, ideas, whatever, I think it follows that you don't need to know how to play the one, to play the other. BTW, neither of the puppeteers I mentioned above has any formal training as an actor; they still manage to pull an incredible range of feeling and nuance from their puppets, a range that goes far beyond mere "manipulation". By the BTW, Preston is right. Anne --- Personal replies to: Puppetz-AT-aol.com --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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